I've been having some issues lately with Jerk Brain. Which is to say, Jerk Brain has been saying stupid things like,
-I am fat
-I am slovenly
-I am lazy
-I am greedy
-Everything is terrible
-Let's just not leave bed ever okay?
So the past few days have been a long slog of actively ignoring Jerk Brain, and forcing myself to do Normal Things, like get up and do yoga and go to work and, oh, I don't know,
eat. But I've been managing, and yesterday I sent out a plea to various loved ones to send me pictures of unicorns to cheer me up. I specified that stick-figure squiggles were 100% acceptable.
It worked
ridiculously well. And now I'm going to share those unicorns with you, in case you also need cheering up.
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Fierce |
The first one I got back was, appropriately enough, from my husband. I married him for his drawing skills, so obviously I have a high bar for his sketches, and he definitely came through with some technical greatness. Not to mention spousal greatness for actually responding so quickly. Plus look at how that unicorn is tossing it's head, as though it's slicing open the belly of Depression.
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Pink Power |
The second one back was this gem, which I thought was deliciously 90s, and also pretty fierce. This pinky-purple unicorn is
glowing with the ability to trample Jerk Brain into the ground.
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Annotated |
This one is actually my favorite- I loved that my friend was sitting, waiting for his appointment, but he heard my cry for attention and grabbed the nearest thing at hand to satisfy it. Also, as a fan of words + pictures, this gets bonus points for utilizing both. That uniorn beast and that magician are going to magic Depression back to the dark ages.
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Sparkly! |
The artist of this fine specimen informed me that he is "fertilizing the world with happiness!" which seemed like exactly what I needed. Not to mention I can just see this unicorn crapping happiness all over Depression until it
drowns in it. Because Depression can't swim, which is why it can't follow me into the ocean.
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RAINBOW |
The final unicorn came in the evening, lighting up my after-work-hours with a neon rainbow and a certain Psychotic Glee in her blue eyes that will surely be the last thing stupid Depression sees as her multi-color horn pierces its skull.
My little blessing of unicorns was just freaking miraculous. It made me so happy that my friends cared enough to indulge me in my random demands for comfort, especially since most of my friends don't consider themselves artists. They did something they're not comfortable doing, just to help me out. Now that's freaking magical.
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